Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose she just hoped that news of her disappearance had n't made it as far as the Glasgow papers . ’ |
| 2 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 3 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 4 | They had monitored him as far as Poverty Row , then the Dream had upside-downed . |
| 5 | In the north , the German advance from East Prussia had taken them as far as Windau , near the Gulf of Riga . |
| 6 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 7 | Unlike its competitors , Eden is still avoiding building in support for wireless data networks in its machines : it 's an attractive market on paper but ‘ we 've looked at the available technology and put together designs , but have n't taken it very far because the pricing just has n't worked ’ says Crisp . |
| 8 | We have taken it this far because we wanted some justice . |